Favorite films

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  The Bullet Train 1975

  ★★★½ Rewatched 19 Jan 2020

  A relatively entertaining thriller/disaster movie. That I watched with my family today and they seemed to enjoy it more than I was expecting.
  I've seen 2 versions of it now and I'd personally recommend the English dubbed (cut) version (115 min) over the original Japanese (uncut) version (152 min). The longer version has scenes about the bombers' backstories that to me felt unnecessarily melodramatic and slowed the thrilling pace down.

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  Moonscape 2013

  ★★★★★ Added

  I can only really recommend this to space enthusiasts as it is mostly an assemble of pure (audio and visual) documentations, shown played back in real time, with little narrative beyond the actions and words of the astronauts and Mission Control. (A commentary maybe planned for a revised version.)

  With that format even though I consider myself a space enthusiast, at times I found it boring and some of the tasks of the astronauts cryptic. That being said most of…

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  The Avenging Quartet 1993

  ★★ Watched 18 Sep 2018

  Based on the cast this could have been the ultimate (Hong Kong) girls with guns movie but unfortunately it's rather dull. Just about the only reason I could recommend for watching this is to see Moon Lee, Cynthia Khan, Oshima Yukari and Nishiwaki Michiko in the same movie.

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  Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! 2017

  ★★★ Watched 20 Nov 2019

  I don't think I want to watch all the near hundred episodes of Pokémon: Indigo League. So considering that this is a sort of 'abridged' version I found it enjoyable, however others may consider it a lazy rehash with some differences.

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